Tenome
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2 months ago This is my first time hearing of it. I'm dubious about the claims, and going by the "improvements" in those comparison pics I'm even more skeptical since it looks like barely anything was done to the sprites/textures. Sounds like it never took off.
Sonic-TV
Looking for some stuff around Online Arcade I found this neogaf post that talked about a C2C mod being worked on in 2015, has a lot of promises but seems to be the only post that talks about it:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/so-is-afterburner-climax-lost-forever.1083625/page-4#post-172838269
Some images are posted at https://imgur.com/a/outrun2006-vs-outrun2015-M4y8A but it doesn't really show too much, apparently there was a page at http://dcvidya.com/outrun/graphics.html with more comparisons but that's down and wasn't picked up by web archive.
They mentioned it was announced on the FXT thread too but I wasn't able to find anything about it, wonder how far it got.
(that neogaf thread also links to a post from Howard where he mentioned transferring X360 shaders over for improved graphics, not really sure how that could work tho, maybe he just meant the lens flare fix: https://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130891.msg1343799.html#msg1343799)